Two Questions Regarding Life At Ten - By Eric Mitchell

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Ethel — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:47:59 GMT

It is an atrocity that as big as this industry is that the main players are not protected THE Horse. If a business is to run well you must provide for the most important participants the HORSE.

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Ethel — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:47:59 GMT

It is an atrocity that as big as this industry is that the main players are not protected THE Horse. If a business is to run well you must provide for the most important participants the HORSE. Shame on you people!!!!

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Your Only Friend — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:35:22 GMT

Jan. 5 2011 another month gone by and cannot give us report on Life at Ten.....Gimmie a Break......do they think the public will just go away? They already know what happened.....just admit they all dropped the ball and do not want to admit.

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Savanna — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:55:54 GMT

How is Life At Ten? I hope she was removed from that trainer's barn. If not shame on them keeping her there!

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Uncle Bri — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:20:55 GMT

I wonder how much someone had on her to LOSE the race? You can bet on just about anything somewhere.

I, too, am thankful she did not meet an untimely demise in this fiasco.

Ten bucks this doesn't get posted.

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Bob Hope — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:29:46 GMT

The BC has needed a director of racing since its inception. The founders, mainly horsemen, felt comfortable with their knowledge of the business at that time and did not anticipate that company policy would deteriorate into mainly a political and wagering platform with no real industry experts at the helm! The event day has suffered in many areas of presentation because of lack of cohesion and expertise.

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Savanna — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:00:55 GMT

@tim lambro. Please let's not start an aruguement. Chris r may not know about QR so let's not go around calling people idiots! Poor Life At Ten! I blame the trainer. He should have known there might be side effects when giving Lifey lasix. i hold nothing agianst the jockey. He tried his best and even if he had gotten of someone else might have ridden her. No blame to the owner either.

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Myopinion — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:46:59 GMT

As an ex-rider... The jockey needs to tell the State Vet that your horse isn't right and they make the decision right there and then after watching the horse go , but you have to say something as A rider.

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merasmag — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:57:47 GMT

i guess my L@10 tickets will havta go im my TP scrap heap next to waitawhile's

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Cheri — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:49:36 GMT

Has the owner removed Life At Ten from Todd Pletcher's barn? Has the horse fully recovered from illness?

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YOUR ONLY FRIEND — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:31 GMT

Another delay in the findings of what happened to this horse.....HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE....lawyers at work again....memories get fuzzy/real truth we will never know.

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NotRealQuiet — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:16:46 GMT

This reminds me of when Barbaro had a false start at Belmont . . . NO ONE Talks About this. My father and I were watching and my Dad turned to me and asked me if a vet had checked him out before they put him back in the gate and I said it was hard to tell but it looked like they just took him and reloaded him--only minutes later that horrendous breakdown when they "were off." I BLAME THE VETS. Would Barbaro still be with us had he been checked out? Does anyone know, WAS he checked out by a vet before he was reloaded? That horrific sight kept me from watching horseracing for nearly 2 years.

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Cheryl — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:57:50 GMT

The responsibility comes down to the jockey. He was on her back. She was not right, she was stumbling, he should have taken action and stood his ground but instead he let her life be risked.

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Jim — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:07:51 GMT

@tim lambro

just an addition on your point about QR which the media never wanted to comment, just when QR was getting readied to load into the gate there was an helicopter right above the starting gate, imagine the noise it makes. That chopper was there till QR was scratched. Once the chopper left QR quit acting up. Why was a chopper up there at that time & who gave the permission. Check the tape.

@Glenn Craven

one the point is that LAT did not warm up, its the jockeys duty to let the vets know about this even if ESPN was, this happens very often that a horse is scratched if he/she did not warm up well.

@Anonymous

regarding your point of odds dropping,many people betting are not horsemen to see that LAT was not well, plus @ the track many people had already made their bet, imagine the long line in the final minutes @ the mutual windows, plus what about the off track,internet wagering where one is betting on many races at a time.

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Sam Not Spam — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:08:59 GMT

Point 1: Stop drugging your horses, America. Then this particular situation can be avoided altogether.

Point 2: If a heavily-backed horse performs below expectations in the UK, a urine/blood sample is taken. Always. Is that kind of rule really so hard to implement?

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PomDeTerre — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:38:21 GMT

As another who watched the race (and lost $$), it was apparent - without ESPN or JV's commets- that the mare had a problem in the warm up. She did look like she was tying up, even before the race. That Pletcher and JV did nothing is horrific, and both should be fined. Pletcher's first allegiance is to the animal and his clients. Same for JV. At the very least, she should have been pulled up after the start. A DNF is far better than "broke down". This incident makes me sick.

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hasty road — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:05:38 GMT

This really stinks. Shouldn't J Val have said something to someone while warming up the horse. (a t.v. producer does not count)

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Martin Karlin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:49:49 GMT

Tim: I wasn't talking about Lasix or any legal drug. As to Quality Road, exactly my point. Why in that race only? And why did his symptoms continue to the airport, unless he was still feeling the effects of an illegal drug. It is my opinion that someone got to both horses and they reacted accordingly. No blood tests for either horse after the race.

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Bellwether — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:50:03 GMT

Eric..KENTUCKY HORSE RACE N TURNED IT$ BACK ON "KEY MOE SAVVY"...BAD KARMA HA$ CAUGHT UP WITH THEM...BOUT TIME...STAY TUNED...ty..."THE BELL BABY"...

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Bellwether — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:38:29 GMT

EXPOSED... KENTUCKY HORSE RACE N I$ A JOKE...THEY R LOSE N THEIR GRIP ON "THE GAME"...& THE BREED N SIDE OF IT TOO...THIS I$ JUST THE TIP OF IT...LET "THE CHIPS FALL & STAND BUY...

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tim lambro — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:19:54 GMT

Chris R........stick with something you know. You're an idiot. Lasix is given to control bleeding, it is a dieuretic, not a sedative. 'In my opinion' you can't have one when you nothing of the subject of which you write.

The horse you mention from last years BC was Quality Road, and he raced in this years Classic. The incident you refer to was the one and only time QR was unruly at the gate in three years of racing. For whatever reason he didn't want to cooperate last year at the gate.

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gogofan — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:16:53 GMT

In my opinion all track officials should wear IFBs (Interruptible Foldback) just like the TV commentators so that way they can hear any thing that is said to the TV commentators. For example if the officials at this year's Breeders' Cup were wearing the IFBs (Interruptible Foldback)they would have heard the conversation that John Velazquez had with Jerry Bailey during the warm ups prior to the race and would have then made sure that Johnny V brought Life At Ten to one of the vets and then maybe she would've been scratched so that there wouldn't have been the embarrassing gallop around the track for the favorite in the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic.

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Monty — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:07:57 GMT

Eric, I'm glad you and Mr. Vance are taking Kentucky to task on this LAT issue. I've been an avid bettor for 25 years, including accounts at TVG and XpressBet. I'm done with racing. They've destroyed my trust with the more-than-curious "non-scratch" of LAT under these most obvious circumstances. Greed is not good when it destroys trust, Kentucky. I also have new information on this matter should you wish to contact me. Keep up the good work.

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Mike — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:53:37 GMT

It falls number one on the trainer, if he did not think she was right then He should have taken her out. If she was not warming up right, then the rider should have taken her up to the gate for the track vet to look at. Unless a horse realy looks lame, somebody on the ground can not tell just how a horse is, or should be.

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Martin Karlin — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:15:44 GMT

A sedated horse entered the paddock. A sedated horse was allowed to go to the track and warm up. A sedated horse was reported by his jockey to be not well but still was allowed to enter the starting gate. Over $13 million was bet on the race. Those responsible for sedating the horse did not bet $1 on Life At Ten who had easily beaten Unrivaled Belle in two previous races. An investigation of the race should begin with those who won the Pick 6 using Unrivaled Belle and not Life At Ten. Last year another Pletcher-Velazquez horse went crazy near the gate in the Classic and was still acting crazy when it was time to enter the plane for the trip home. Both horses, in my opinion, were administered drugs prior to entering the track. And so, in successive years, the two most important races for older horses in the United States were poisoned. Wake up American horsemen. Your industry is rotten and those administering the poison are brazen. If the most important races in America are tainted, then every other race is suspect. Today, winning at the races no longer involves picking winners, but rather, guessing correctly.